Applications are invited for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024 from UG and PG in the EE and CSE department-listed institutes. Check the details below!
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. proudly announces the launch of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024-2025 program for selected Indian universities. Each winning team (up to 2 students and 1 faculty member) will receive a financial award for the academic year 2024-25, plus the assignment of a Qualcomm researcher(s) as a mentor to facilitate close interaction with Qualcomm.
The Program is sponsored by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., headquartered at 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, U.S.A. (“Sponsor”).
Submissions will be open from Feb 26, 2024. The template is provided on this website for proposal submission by the teams.
The team can be comprised of up to 2 students, wherein at least one student member of the team has to be enrolled as a Master (M.S. / M.Tech.), Dual degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech/M.S.) or PhD student in the Electrical Engineering or Computer Science department (or related department) for the entire 2024-25 academic year. In the case of a dual degree, the student should have completed his/her bachelor’s degree requirements by the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.
A second student team member is optional and may even be a final year undergraduate, i.e., enrolled in the final year of the undergraduate program in 2024-2025. Each student on a team is an “Entrant” and needs to be enrolled as a full-time student in one of the participating institutes.
Also, each team must have one or more faculty advisors supporting the proposal and all the team members and the faculty advisor(s) should be from the same institute. The Master or PhD entrants from each team may choose ideas from their ongoing or planned research and/or thesis projects per their university policies.
Each team shall submit an innovation proposal (download the template) that must include the following:
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At least eight winning teams will be chosen from this pool of selected teams after they present to the judging panel. The winning teams will be invited by the Sponsor to a virtual event for presenting the proposal details. All QIF-related information will be announced on this webpage. Please check back regularly for updates.
In addition to the faculty advisor(s) guiding the fellowship research, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. will help with assigning mentor(s) to facilitate periodic interaction opportunities with Qualcomm Research.
The QIF India 2024 winning proposals will be re-evaluated in Apr/May 2025 in the form of a project presentation, with up to one team being granted a funding renewal from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is inviting applications for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2024 from undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (and related) departments at:
Interested candidates can apply through this link.
Apr 15, 2024: Proposal submission deadline: (10:00h India time)
innovation.fellowship.india[at]qti.qualcomm.com
